'Twas a sad day.

[Old Mill Tree Care]

'twas a sad day yesterday as my beloved Unimog rumbled along the road with its new owner at the wheel.

It's gone to work for a utilities forestry company and I hope it makes them lots of money.

I wondered if I'd shed a tear, but I didn't!

 

I hope I haven't made a mistake selling it 😱.

[skyhuck]

Fool!!!!!!!!

[Ian H]

I doubt you'll look back at it as a mistake, as one door closes another opens, on to bigger and better? It's always a sad moment tho.

[Little Steven]

'twas a sad day yesterday as my beloved Unimog rumbled along the road with its new owner at the wheel.

It's gone to work for a utilities forestry company and I hope it makes them lots of money.

I wondered if I'd shed a tear, but I didn't!

 

I hope I haven't made a mistake selling it .

 

Just look at the positive side.... you now can get another one!!!!!

....all part of the 'wheel of life'

 

but comiserations on your loss all the same!

 

Steve

[skyhuck]

In all honesty I'm not sure you will miss it that much, you had the chipper on the back so only used it as a chipping truck, if you had had a timber trailer and crane it would be very difficult to go back to cutting up and hand balling timber.

 

Things have been very quiet for me recently, I've wondered if I should consider down sizing, but the thought of going back to slicing and dicing timber makes me shudder.

 

Fortunately my over heads are not too high and I will very soon have no finance at all, so I'm hoping to get through this down turn without parting with my gear.

[pie eater pete]

Iv just sold Betsy my 90 this afternoon I had a lump in me throat when she drove away! Had some good times in her...

[Tom D]

In all honesty I'm not sure you will miss it that much, you had the chipper on the back so only used it as a chipping truck, if you had had a timber trailer and crane it would be very difficult to go back to cutting up and hand balling timber.

 

Things have been very quiet for me recently, I've wondered if I should consider down sizing, but the thought of going back to slicing and dicing timber makes me shudder.

 

Fortunately my over heads are not too high and I will very soon have no finance at all, so I'm hoping to get through this down turn without parting with my gear.

 

We did a job this week, felling an elm and a poplar, not small trees, they were in a walled garden with roads on 2 sides, the temporary access was a very steep mound of type 1. We took the transit and chipper, the landy towing the wee tractor and the valtra and big trailer. We brought the brash out with the wee tractor, up and down the type 1, and used it to move the timber nearer the walls so that the crane could reach over and lift it out. The whole job was so easy, and would have taken us 2 days with the transit / landy /trailer combo and 3-4 days with just the transit/chipper.

 

Timber shifters are sooo good. I'd sell a kidney before I sold the tractor.

 

Having said that I am getting a little out of shape now that we don't work as hard.

[Stephen Blair]

You have always been dowy Tom lol

[Tom D]

Dowy?

[Stephen Blair]

Doughy! Lol